Machinery for drying skeins of yarn



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J. R. DEARDEN. MACHINERY FOR DRYING SKEINS 0P YARN. No. 328,470.

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JOHN RICHARD DEARDEN, OF SAXONVILLE, MASSACHUSETTS.

MACHINERY FOR DRYING SKEINS OF YARN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 328,470, dated October20,1885.

Application filed September 6, 1884. Serial No. 142,343. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J GEN RICHARD DEAR- DEN, of Saxonville, in thecounty of Middlesex, of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have inventeda new and useful Improvement in Machinery for Drying Skeins of Yarn; andI do hereby declare the same to be described in the followingspecification, and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which-Figure 1 is a top view, Fig. 2 a side elevation, Fig. 3 a horizontalsection, and Fig. 4 a vertical section of a machine embodying myinvention, the nature of which is defined in the claims hereinafterpresented. Fig. 5 is a top View, and Fig. 6 a longitudinal section, of anumber of skeins as connected by the binding-warps'or endless tapes orcords, to be described. Figs. 7 and 8 are hereinafter referred to andexplained.

By the above-mentioned machine the skeins of yarn are, like theweft-threads of cloth when arranged paralled to each other, connected bya warp, there being generally employed for such warp two sets of endlesscords or tapes having two or three cords or tapes'to each set. I termthese connecting cords or threads binding-warps, thus serving to connectthe skeins so as to form a belt of them. This belt is led through andout of a drying apparatus, in going through which the skeins composingthe belt are dried. From this drying apparatus the belt passes to or byand issubjected to the action of mechanism by which the binding-warpsare drawn away from the skeins, so as to enable the'latter to fall apartor separate from each other.

In the said drawings, A denotes the frame of the machine, having withinit a table or platform, B, from which there is extended downward, asshown in Fig. 2, a curved inclined chute, O. In the top of the saidtable is a series of parallel slots or openings, a, eX-. tendingtransversely across the said top. In each of these slots or openings atis a rod or warp-carrier, b, the slot or opening serving not only as aguide to the rod in its vertical movements, but as a recess or passagefor a set of the binding-warps to go through. Each rod 1), at its lowerpart, is pivoted to a vi-' bratory arm, 0, there being two sets of sucharms, one of which projects from one rockshaft, d, and the other fromanother rocknear one end at a right angle.

skein.

shaft, 6, arranged as represented in thedrawings.

Each rod 12 has a hole, f, through it, near its upper end, to receive abinding-warp, which goes through it. These warps are endless tapes orcords, they being shown at 9.9. The

rods operate, like the harnesses of a loom, to

raise some of the warps and depress others, in

order for a shuttle carrying a weft-thread to is hitched on the upturnedpart of the rod. 7

The rod next is drawn backward, so as to pull.

the skein into the shed to the necessary extent. The rod next drops ashort distance,

sufficiently" for its disengagement with the skein, after which thewarp-carriers b are moved-some upward and the rest downwardso as tocross their warps upon the between the. crossed warps and disconnectedfrom the introducer, a beater is driven for- As soon as the skein may belaid ward against the skein to force it into the shed of the warps, asthe lay of a loom acts to beat the filling into the warp. This beaterwill be hereinafter described. After a skein may have been so bound thewarps are moved forward a sufficient distance for the next skein to beintroduced between them, and close against and parallel to the other, bymeans of the skein introducer. For this purpose the warps may haveeither an intermittent or a slow continuous motion.

As hereinbefore stated, each warp g is an endless band, tape, or cord.It passes down the chute O, and thence about a seriesof rollers, D,arranged in a drying chamber or box,

E. These rollers have sprocket-gears t on their shafts to engage with anendless chain, is, carried around a series of supporting and guidegears, Z. There is fixed on the shaft of one of the warp-guide rollers abeveled gear, m, which engages with a bevel-pinion, n, fixed on aninclined shaft, 0, supported in suitable boxes, 10. On the lower end ofthe shaft 0 is IOO fastened another bevel-pinion, q, that engages withanother such pinion, r, fixed. on a horizontal shaft, s. The pinion rengages with another bevel-pinion, t, carried by the driving-shaft u ofthe machine. On this shaft is a fast pulley, o, and a loose pulley, w,the shaft being'properlysupport'ed in bearings 00, applied to standardsy.

The beater is represented at F. It consists of a series of rods or arms,2, and a horizontal rock-shaft, a, from which the said arms projectupward through slots in the table, and between the ranges of endlessbinding-warps. A connecting-rod, b, is pivoted to one of the arms 2 andto a short lever, c, from which a stud, d, extends into the groove of acam, e, fixed on the shaft 3. When the shaft 3 is in revolution, areciprocating vibratory movetaeh to the block h to which the introducerat its rear end or part is pivoted, the two ends ment will be impartedto the beater F.

To operate the skein-introducer h-that is, to move it lengthwise on itsways h first in one and next in the opposite direction-I at of a band,f, going, as shown in Fig. 7, around a large pulley, g, and a smallerone, h, and partially around two small rolls, 9 h' supported by theframe, the said figure being a view Y to exhibit the arrangement of theintroducer and'its operative band and pulleys. The pulley g is fixed onthe shaft 2', provided with a spur-gear, k, which engages with a gearedsector, Z, carried by a lever, m, from whose shorter arm a stud, n,extends'into a grooved cam, .0, fixed on the driving-shaft u.

When the cam 0 is in revolution, areeiproeating vibratory motion will beimparted to the lever m, whereby the toothed sector will be made to turnthe gear k first in one and next in the opposite way, whereby theskeinintrodueer will be drawn in between and next out of thebinding-warps. Each bindingwarp goes partlyabout one or more pulleys orsheaves, p, drawn downward by a weight, gf, to each, such pulley andweight being to keep the warp at a proper tension.

The belt of skeins after emerging from the .drying apparatus passes downan inclined 'plane, H, and underneath a presser-bar, I,

Thence they pass to and partly around guide-- pulleys u,- thence aroundother guide-pulleys, t, and the weighted-sheaves; thence to and over aulley, '0 pivoted to the table asrepi resented. Each set of warpsbetween which the presser is arranged has a separate mechanism, asdescribed, for extracting it from the skeins.

The drying chamber or box is to have within or applied to it somesuitable means of heating the air passing through it-such as shown,being a series of .pipes, t properly arranged for steam to pass throughthem and heat them.

From the above, it will be seen that the skeins in a wet state, as. theyusually are after being washed, are to be successively introduced intothe shed of the warps, and that such warps are to be woven upon theskeins in a mannervery like that in which warps are woven .onweft-threads in the"weaving of cloth; also, that the belt of skeins ismoved forward through the drying apparatus, and

after exit therefrom the warps are drawn lat-- erally out of the belt,and the skeins are forced down and off the inclined plane H.

The skein-introducer has mechanism for depressing it out of engagementwith the skein after the latter may have been drawn into the shed of thewarps. The introducer slides through a block, to, which is movable inguides at m, and is pivoted to a rod, 11 that is pivoted to a lever, g/which at the proper times is moved by a cam, z, to throw it upward andto depress it. this mechanism, such view exhibiting the cam as fixed onthe driving-shaft. I

I claim- 1. The combination, substantially as described, forinterweaving a series of skeins and a series of binding-warps,suchcombina- Fig. 6 is a view of tion consisting of the slotted table B, andthe warp-carrying rods b, the skein-introducer h, and the beater F, andtheir operative mechanisms, essentially as described and represented. g

2. The combination of the series of endless warps provided withmechanism, substantially as described, for supporting them andmaintaining them at proper tension with the table B, and thewarp-carrying rods 12, the skeinintroducer h, and the beater F, providedwith mechanisms for operating them, essentially as set forth. V

- 3. The combination of the series of endless warps provided withmechanism, substantially as described,for' supporting them andmaintaining them at proper tension with the table B, and thewarp-carrying rods b, the skeinintroducer h, and the beater F, havingme'eh anisms for operating them, as explained, and

:also with the drying box or chamber, and the inclined plane H, andpresser-bar I, and rollers 1, substantially as described, for extractingthe warps, all being essentially and for the purpose or purposes, asspecified. v

. j JOHN RICHARD DEARDEN.

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